The Publishers of this Bible, Crossway, tell us that “The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way—to understand the timeless truth of God’s Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. To accomplish this, the ESV Study Bible combines the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV Bible text. The result is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published—with 2,752 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources.” I have to say that it is as comprehensive & feature filled as the description says. The website they have produced for this release is simply brilliant for help & guidance before purchasing a copy. You can visit the site where you will also find a free preview of the study Bible, here. You can also visit their blog here. Endorsed by John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Jerry Bridges, Joni Eareckson Tada, JI Packer and many more this has been a very popular Bible since its release. We blogged about it here when we first got our hands on it back in Dec08 but for a limited period we have been offering the Bible at a reduced price & now that our online shop is up & running we wanted to remind you of this wonderful Bible at a great price. The RSP is currently £39.99 and we are pleased, for a limited time to offer the ESV Study Bible at £27.99. Buy your copy today (with free delivery in the UK)

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Christianity Today posted this article on the best Christian music of 2008! Only a few of these titles are readily available in the UK! The number one pick by Brooke Fraser is not available in the UK yet. If this was some small time magazine who published an obscure list of music then i would pass it by BUT this album has featured on so many “best of” lists online in the last few months! It should be in the UK, and not just on amazon who so obviously have imported it! Ok, i know we get some great music here in the UK BUT really, this is a bit strange. To find an album being so applauded in the industry and across the internet and nobody has thought to get it on our shelves yet? any answers?

At the end of October STL had a change of computer system which has continued to effect the trade over the last couple of months. For those reading who have no idea what STL is, they are the “largest” supplier of Christian product in UK & Europe. The Christian retail trade depends on them for an awful lot of what the customers in our shops purchase. The two times i mention them above are linked to their new blog, which is keeping many up to date with the progress of their new system etc. We have, like all retailers, been affected by the changes and at times it has been very difficult to explain what is actually happening out there. I am not directly affected as i sit at my desk and think about html etc etc but i know of the difficulties that some of our shops & more importantly our Distribution Center, have experienced. This is not primarily the point of my post! I would like to know how we deal with these problems? Not just as retailers dealing with suppliers but also as customers dealing with retailers? How do we deal with frustrations and delays with orders? I ask this because of the following;

“It’s sad really, especially when you consider that the majority of people who I work with aren’t Christians. So now the wonderful witness that they’re experiencing is Christian after Christian shouting, swearing and generally acting like the world has come to end because their books are two days later arriving than normal. To be fair, not everyone is that bad, and some people are really nice and understanding, but sadly it’s the horrible customers who my colleagues remember.
Message for all STL customers – be nicer.”

This excerpt comes from a blog by someone who works at STL, you can visit her blog here. So, Christian retailers are being nasty to STL, perhaps and almost certainly, Christian customers are being nasty to Christian retailers and in case you have not noticed, the common thread here is the word Christian. Being Christian in name is simply not good enough and as the excerpt above relays a message of “be nicer” i would add to it that we should BE CHRISTIAN!

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